History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

• to select relevant information from a source
• to group and sequence sources according to different criteria
• in outline about the key features and technological developments that characterised different conflicts in the twentieth century
• that twentieth-century conflicts involved civilians as well as the military

• that the major conflicts of the twentieth century had long-term and short-term causes
• that different nations had differing attitudes to the prospect of conflict
• to identify similar factors leading to the outbreak of major world conflicts
• to research and summarise information for use in group discussion

• that the invention of nuclear weapons was a major turning point in twentieth-century history
• that Great Powers, post-1945, shared certain specific characteristics
• that the Cold War was partly created by widely different political ideologies
• to compare some of the features of the Cold War with earlier twentieth-century conflicts
• to present their findings in a variety of ways

• to describe and begin to analyse why there are different interpretations of historical events

• about the impact of world events upon ordinary people
• that the impact of 'total war' did not discriminate between military and non-military populations
• to select and use a variety of local source material to contribute to an investigation

• to use their factual knowledge to make links and analyse relationships between events and changes
• to summarise their learning through a structured piece of writing about twentieth-century warfare